Jimmy Ivory

so was that duck really hoping the lemonade stand had grapes or was it like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman ordering Schlitz at that fancy restaurant

Promise & Peril: Technology and Mental Health — Call To Mind Technology is ever-present in modern life, from remote work to communities on social media, from dating apps to telemedicine. We live with an ever-expanding array of online options and an ever-growing...

Thanks Kelly Libbey for talking with me for your well-done segment on the latest "Call to Mind" broadcast special: calltomindnow.org/promise-peri...

And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Zoom, King of Kings;
Look on my Meetings, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.

"The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."

-Carl Von Clausewitz, "On War"

one day you're just a kid who can't wait to grow up and before you know it you're turning on the television and Frasier Crane is looking like a guy who would call you "sir."

I suppose a lot of my career has been built on stating the obvious.

Thank you for reading it. I'm glad you found it useful given how hard you are working in these conversations. I had worried that everything I was saying was obvious, but I suppose now and again someone has to state the obvious.

Goodbye to someone who always got a lot of us thinking (fast and slow, of course). I particularly admired his reflections on social priming just over a decade ago and think we can still heed them more.

behavioralpolicy.princeton.edu/news/DanielK...

When my workplace starts a meal train for coworkers but I am an awful cook:

Life insurance salespeople when they finally get me on the phone and I answer three questions:

🎵Despite all my rage...🎵

"And who would have guessed that a shirtless recently-retired NFL player and a spindly neurodiverse NFL head coach would be just the right men to make me follow the NFL again?"

I greet you with a little validation for any of you who have ever felt like I have the social graces of someone who was born on another planet: